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kirbowo808 , (edited )
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Not allowing to go to the toilet whilst in your lessons and only during break/lunch time.

This was such an issue since needing a toilet is a natural thing and it’s not something we can control/control for very long and it’s very bad if we do so, yet teachers would literally send out detentions/warnings if we even attempted, which was so idiotic of itself.

The reason we couldn’t use the toilet whilst we were in our lesson, was cuz to the teachers, they though it was an excuse for us to skip lessons, which already caused many ppl inc myself to immediately lose trust in our teachers and therefore internalise our problems, which was a huge case at my secondary school.

I hid so much shit from people at the time cuz of teachers behaviour like this but also didn’t help that coming from a toxic household, just made things ten times worse due to it.

Delphia ,

We had one teacher who decided this was the rule in his class and the school backed him. We also had an absolute madlad who insisted for 20 minutes that he needed to go to the toilet and when constantly refused shit his pants on purpose.

The teacher was fucking apoplectic demanding he get up and get out and he just sat there “You said no, deal with it. Call the principal down here if you dont like it but I’m not moving from this chair for another 10 minutes.”

Nobody ever gave him a hard time about it, we all appreciated him taking one (or a 2) for the team they rescinded that policy shortly after.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please ,

We had a fucking legend shit in a teacher’s trashcan when the teacher wouldn’t let him go to the bathroom. Teacher was one of the infamously strict “zero bathroom breaks, you should have gone before class and can hold it until afterwards” types. So after asking a few times and getting denied, the kid just dropped trou and squirted molten hatred into the teacher’s desk side trashcan.

And yes, the teacher changed his rule following the incident.

Admetus ,

There’s a school nearby us for which the teacher must call a duty teacher for the student to go to the toilet. That’s at least 30 seconds of the class wasted.

At ours, I say to the student they better be fast, and they are. If it’s 5-10 minutes to the end of class I ask if they can hold it, respectfully (they’re 16, honestly) and they usually acquiesce. If it’s a girl I wouldn’t be harsh and let me them go, but that’s because I almost rarely get requests from girls. Boys just wanna piss.

Tessellecta ,

TBF, students using going to the bathroom as an excuse to do other things is very real. Not all student do it, but some do and these people cause a lot of issues.

I generally keep the rules: leave your phone in the classroom and be back in 10 minutes.

The amount of students that suddenly don’t have to go anymore once they’re reminded they need to leave their phone is very high.

tetris11 ,
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That’s genius

sexual_tomato ,

TBF, students using going to the bathroom as an excuse to do other things is very real.

Can confirm, I did this to skip parts of band rehearsal on days where my part was super dull to play.

NorthWestWind ,
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My school cannot do anything on Sunday except Christian fellowship. One time there was a competition on Sunday and one of the teachers is needed to guide the students, but got denied by the school.

(Before you ask me why did I attend a Christian school, it’s because other schools that are not Christian sucked academically)

altima_neo , (edited )
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In middle school, we had some militaristic gym coaches. Youd think we were in boot camp or something? They have very specific rules that had to be followed to a T.

You had to wear briefs, no boxers allowed. If you did have boxers, you had to have briefs under them.

You had to wear the school gym uniform, no exceptions.

The provided shorts were super short, so you could also wear sweats, but you had to wear the shorts underneath them.

You had to have your shirt tucked in.

You had to form a line in your designated spot and wait on the playground for the class to start before the gym coaches would arrive to take attendance. This was in the SoCal heat.

During attendance, the coach would also inspect your uniform. Youd have to show the band of your briefs and shorts to show compliance with the rules.

You had to use the gym shower, no exceptions. God that was awful and awkward.

You break enough rules and youd collected “non-strips”, like a demerit, which would earn you detention.

All that hubub and all we ever did was run laps on the field. We used the gym once or twice, but I cant even remember what we did. All the attendance, uniform crap, and shower took up most of the period.

Its no wonder I hated gym class and exercising after dealing with that shit. It wasnt till I hit my 30s that I realized I quite enjoyed working out and hiking.

wuphysics87 ,

All the pants, underwear, and shower rules dude sounds like a pedo

altima_neo ,
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It’s was actually two dudes who ran the class. One was a bit more chill but the other was straight out of Full Metal Jacket.

Delphia ,

The underwear rule could have more to do with accidental flashing if the uniform shorts have very short legs.

altima_neo ,
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He always said it was for support, as boxers don’t offer any.

claycle ,

Perhaps, but middle-schoolers genuinely stink to high heaven, especially after P/E. I think one can imagine more obvious/less conspiratorial reasons for showers being mandatory.

klemptor ,
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Yeah fuck gym class. I actually think it’s super important for kids to be active but the way it’s implemented, especially at the junior high and high school levels, is asinine. And your situation sucked, what a stupid amount of bullshit!

I was a habitual skipper of gym class from about grade 2 until I graduated high school. I’d only participate enough to get a D, and some marking periods I misjudged and got an F. The only times I didn’t try to skip were when we had the weight room, because I actually liked that. But failing gym class had exactly zero impact on anything in my life. My dad gave me the whole “I’d be disappointed in you, but I’ve learned not to have expectations so you can’t disappoint me” schpiel, which whatever, emotional manipulation was my parents’ bread and butter, so I didn’t really care. Other than that, no repercussions at all.

BlitzoTheOisSilent ,

Yeah, I remember one of my teachers (I think my high school biology teacher) chastising us a bit one day because most of the class would come from PE before hers. She was complaining that we smelled like sweat and working out and all that.

But we weren’t allowed (or given even close to enough time at the end of the PE class) to use the showers. You basically showed up, had until the second bell (about 5 minutes after the first) to be in the gym ready to go, you’d run/play/workout/whatever for almost an hour straight, and then be given at most 5 minutes to change and go to your next class.

No shit we stank, and when we asked why we couldn’t use the showers, we were told there was no way for us to be monitored in there, so it left too many opportunities for misdeeds and shit.

altima_neo ,
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Our showers were strange. It was basically a wide hallway with showerheads along both walls. And considering how strict my gym coach was, he’d have everything on a schedule and timed. So everyone would go to the locker room at the same time, get undressed and hit the shower at the same time. We had to have a towel wrapped around our waists. Then wed have to all wait at the showers exit for everyone to finish, and only then would we be released back into the locker room.

Revan343 ,

During a grade 6 camping retreat, my best friend and I got in trouble for gambling, playing five card draw with evenly dealt chips and no actual money.

It was eventually officially decided that the chips were the problem. We collected rocks from the gravel road and played with those instead. Our roommates who originally complained were pissed, but five card draw with pebbles instead of chips was apparently allowed

JCPhoenix ,
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When I was in 8th grade year, right before the end of the year in one of my classes, we ended up having a substitute teacher. For some reason, she and a few of us were talking about poker and that we, the students, didn’t know how to play.

The next day, she brings in cards and chips and is trying to teach us how to play! She did say that she probably shouldn’t be doing this, but continued anyway. Interestingly, this was in Utah, in a suburb of Salt Lake City, which is the capital of the Mormon church. And she herself was Mormon. I always thought it was funny that our Mormon teacher was teaching us how to gamble in school!

Strayce ,

One of my math teachers spent an entire semester teaching us how to gamble. He used it to teach us how statistics and probability worked. Final assessment was to set up mock bookie offices for a fairly famous local horse race.

user224 ,

I’ve got 2, both from middle school:

  1. No card games: Like, why? I even had a classmate who during one period didn’t exercise on PE. Perhaps due to previous sickness, I don’t remember. As he wasn’t the only one, he played some card game with others. The PE teacher noticed it, took that card deck, AND FUCKING RIPPED IT IN HALF. How much strength does that…? Anyway, I remember he cried, I’d say rightfully so. “You are supposed to pay attention!” Pay attention to what, people running?
    Card games were even banned during breaks, not just free classes. What’s the problem? Teachers didn’t care if someone was beating the shit out of someone else with a chair, they didn’t care if someone was playing with a butterfly knife, but card games? “That’s dangerous for the youth.”
  2. No smartphones: I mean, not even during breaks, except for “A” classes. A classes had the “better” students. The weirdest stuff here was that I haven’t taken the phone with me to school. After all, why? I could break it, I’d have no use for it and I lived 2 minutes away from school. But, when it came to collecting them, no one believed me. “Everyone has a phone nowdays, so you’ll either give it to me, or I’ll have to search your bag.” Thankfully, after a week our class teacher finally understood that I in fact do not carry a phone with me.

Or perhaps I could also add something from elementary school. I have no idea what rule it would break though:

Some girl reported me (a boy) for apparently having a mascara. Our teacher then searched my bag, as if it was a grenade. I did in fact not have it.
And no, she didn’t report me stealing a mascara, just me having one as a boy. And the teacher took that seriously.

Cnor_Siwas ,

And I thought that my school is weird. Well, maybe I should reconsider that

altima_neo ,
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They come up with some serious bullshit in school.

I got lucky in that they didnt care about cards when I was in middle school. Wed be playing poker, California speed, etc. I rememeber wed be in woodshop when all the equipment was in use, so wed just play card games to pass the period. Or during breaks between classes. And especially the last day, it was a free for all for some reason. Testing was all done, teachers had nothing else to teach. Wed just go to each class like normal, and just hang out playing card games, getting our yearbooks signed, etc. But this was the 90s, before anyone had cellphones or gadgets.

betterdeadthanreddit ,

Some girl reported me (a boy) for apparently having a mascara. Our teacher then searched my bag, as if it was a grenade.

Which of the former(?) Confederate states did this happen in? Sounds like a grenade might have been okay with them if you’d had one, they’re manly enough.

user224 ,

Oh, you’re going to be surprised. Slovakia, central Europe.

betterdeadthanreddit ,

A little surprised but I know we don’t have a monopoly on dipshittery here in the land of pickup trucks with pink rubber scrotums flapping in the wind. Just seems that way sometimes.

AMDIsOurLord ,

I literally have the opposite experience with the phone thing lmfao

at some point I had a calculator (one of those slick 1990s casios) in my pocket, that king of looked like a phone. When I was passing one of the admins, I actually thought she thinks I have a phone in my pocket, so I gestured to it to say it’s a calculator which she misinterpreted as me somehow boasting that I got a phone, so she was like “Oh so you got a phone, so what? Everyone does nowadays”

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    AMDIsOurLord ,

    This just oozes pure American energy

    ShadowCatEXE ,
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    Not a rule, but I got in trouble by jumping near a brick wall. The school I went to had bars on the bottom windows, and kids used to jump off the wall and hang off them. During recess, I was jumping beside the wall, and got yelled at.

    It was a catholic school. Most teachers were garbage. Except this one Australian teacher. He was awesome.

    BirdEnjoyer ,

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    Zahille7 ,

    What the fuck even happens in a dorm meeting? “Keep it down, don’t smoke inside, drink responsibly”?

    BirdEnjoyer ,

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    Zahille7 ,

    That’s actually insane

    dutchkimble ,

    Mr Miaggi approves

    Purple_drink ,

    I got in trouble for doing homework at school. Because it was meant to be done at home.

    0_0j ,
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    Lol Nerd

    tetris11 ,
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    I loved doing my homework at school. It was so easy to concentrate, all the textbooks were there, and then afterwards you have whole evening to yourself at home to watch whatever you want without any guilt or stress

    WHARRGARBL ,

    Anyone who ate hot lunch had to eat everything on their tray, and we weren’t allowed to pass on any part of the meal because children in other countries were starving or something. Lunch ladies checked our trays before we were allowed to leave the cafeteria.

    On the days when sauerkraut was served, we’d take turns being the sauerkraut smuggler, cramming that dank crap from about a dozen 8 year old kids’ trays into an empty milk carton, so we could toss it all without the lunch lady catching it. One day when I was the kraut smuggler, lunch nazi grabbed my carton and marched me back to the table. She said I had to eat every strand of the milky garbage we’d all stowed before I could leave.

    I tried, but kept gagging and retching. I sat huddled with the collective slop at the table, crying for about 3 hours before my teacher found me and released me from lunch jail.

    yukichigai OP ,
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    Supposedly there was a similar policy at my elementary school early on, which led to a kid being forced to eat something they were allergic to. As the story goes, they vomited violently all over the lunch monitor and then had to be taken to the nurse's office. Their parents were not amused. The policy did not stay in place.

    Zirconium ,

    I literally dont understand how teachers or school staff can be so authoritarian that theyd rather a kid die than that kid possibility be lying

    betterdeadthanreddit ,

    They’ve got a tiny scrap of power and by god, they intend to use it! More enjoyable than going to therapy for the abuse they suffered as children.

    altima_neo ,
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    Man, thats bullshit.

    We were quite lucky that our cafeteria had some delicious food for breakfast and lunch. I actually looked forward to it. Sometimes we’d get lucky and the lunch lady “overproduced” and would invite us to get seconds, and those of us who stuck around for them would get excited!

    Tangent5280 ,

    Holy shit, that last part though. That’s the kind of shit that scars children. I’d be going to jail if you were my kid.

    I hope you came through it without too much damage and is in a better place now.

    Pyramid8058 ,

    I was in middle school when the Columbine shooting happened. The following year, they updated the dress code to require everyone to tuck in their shirts with the stated reasoning that it would prevent people from concealing weapons.

    tkohldesac ,
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    I too was in middle school when Columbine happened. The next year we weren’t allowed to wear trench coats… In Phoenix…

    Ghostalmedia ,
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    To be fair, some places go a little hard with the AC.

    altima_neo ,
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    I was in high school. Trenchcoats were pretty popular to wear at the time with the nerds and geeks. We even had the kids in choir who looked up to an a capella group called “The Trenchcoats”, who would regularly wear them.

    Trenchcoats got banned because of Columbine and the choir kids werent allowed to wear them anymore. Even the a capella group changed their name to “The Coats” around that time. Weird times, man.

    tetris11 ,
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    For anyone wondering:

    • The Matrix came out in late March 1999
    • Colombine happened in late April 1999
    son_named_bort ,

    My school did the same thing. Seemed kinda pointless. They also required belts then as well.

    andrewta ,

    not really a school rule but it is one they tried to push on my mom when i was in elementary school.

    i was the tiniest kid in class and my mom wanted me to take karate lessons. to give me some self esteem. the teachers tried to tell her the only thing it would do would make me want to get into fights. but somehow playing football would have been completely ok. so a high impact physical sport where you grab people and throw them to the ground is ok… as long as there is a ball involved. but giving a little kid some self esteem in an environment that encourages restraint and self control is not ok.

    this was sometime around 1982-1985 i forget exactly what year.

    moronic way of thinking.

    boogetyboo ,
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    Where I live, the winters get very cold. Not like Canada cold, but cold by my country’s standards - think a top of 9°c during the day. My city also has an odd culture where no one remembers how cold it gets, given our summers are so hot, so we’re all left confused and freezing come winter - no one has proper clothes for it. It’s like a citywide, seasonal amnesia.

    That was certainly the case when I was in highschool 20 years ago. At lunch/recess time, the only time students were allowed inside the building was if it was raining. I understand that this was for the teacher to student ratio of supervision. Everyone outside or everyone inside - much easier to manage.

    But it meant that every time it got really, really cold, half the student class would go inside to huddle against the radiators to keep warm. Periodically a teacher would come in and kick us out. You’d repeat this process a few times over recess/lunch.

    So while it wasn’t a stupid rule, given I understand the teachers need to not be spread too thin, it was also ridiculous to expect kids to hang around outside in the freezing cold, in a place where people act like wearing a beanie is being dramatic.

    TAG ,
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    Maybe it is because I am used to a colder climate, but how did you come to school without outerwear? Did your parents not notice the temperature in the morning and put a jacket on you?

    boogetyboo ,
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    I mean we were highschool kids so we dressed ourselves. No one had proper coats. From what I’ve seen driving past schools, they still don’t. It’s a very specific form of temperature denial we have here.

    TAG ,
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    That makes sense. Sorry, I grew up in a school system where recess stops after the fifth grade.

    Also, you mentioned that lack of coat was a problem for lunch? I assume that means that your cafeteria only had outdoor seating. How did that work when it was raining or very windy?

    boogetyboo ,
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    Cafeteria was for purchasing food, not consuming. Everyone outside!

    muntedcrocodile ,
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    You can’t be late more than x times. Sounds fair till u realise the school bus was always late hence racking up like 200 official warnings. School couldn’t change the rule cos government regulations bus couldn’t get there sooner cos government refused to change the shedule.

    simple ,

    My school at some point tried to be very extreme about being late. A new rule was that if you were late for even 1 minute, you won’t be allowed in the school.

    I was literally walking to the door and saw a kid go in, but I wasn’t allowed in because oh I guess I was a few seconds too late.

    Me and other teenagers crowded around the front door and the exchange was basically this

    “So you won’t let us in?”

    “No, you were late. Go home.”

    And we all shrugged and took the day off. Needless to say the rule didn’t last very long and there were many angry parents.

    Late2TheParty ,
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    Homie! My school was neighbors to a bar right next to the train station. When they said, “no,” I said party!

    captain_aggravated ,
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    Have psychologists studied this behavior? Like, what goes wrong in school personnel that makes them this dumb?

    Tar_alcaran ,

    My school briefly had a rule that when you were late, you could take a note (3 notes = detention), OR you could go to headmaster and explain yourself during lunchbreak.

    Lunchbreak was 40 minutes, so if you stood there for more than 40 minutes, you’d be late for the next class, meaning you’d of course show up again tomorrow. Repeat for a while and there were kids lined up through the hallway, standing in line to explain they were late due to standing in line.

    The rule only lasted a few weeks. They changed it so that you could get 9 notes before detention.

    Jimmycrackcrack ,

    Why couldn’t the school change the rule though? Weren’t they free to have implemented it in the first place? Once it became apparent it was unworkable couldn’t they have changed it?

    Zuberi ,
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    This is a bot ^

    stick2urgunz88 ,

    In elementary school, we were only allowed to have up to 8 people at each lunch table. One day we sat 9, and all got detention for it.

    xmunk ,

    Just wait till you get hired by a large corporation. It boggles the mind how idiotic bureaucracy can be.

    Spacemanspliff ,

    Twice I’ve found myself working in the corporate world and the amount of busy work and needless things completely boggled my mind.

    xmunk ,

    I was working at a small agile company… we were acquired by an ogre because we were so profitable. Our parent company has been trying it’s damnedest to reduce our profitability with as many bullshit policies as it can manage.

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